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>> guest: now, we are in university city in west philadelphia. kind originally started in a very small downtown philadelphia and moved in university city, which we've helped make into a via brad arts and culture and economic club. >> host: once again, here is the book. it is "the spirit of compromise: why governing demands it and campaigning undermines it". amy gutmann and dennis thompson are the co-authors. this is booktv on c-span 2. >> if you want to compare people come you got to first while persuade them that their soul is in dire danger, headed for the ultimate bond fire of the existence. and for that, you need to label them followers of the devil,. diabolical human beings. so they look to the devil and the titis -- a very complex religion well structured. they looked among the titis and the sound issue, dtt called issue. i often refer to issue as the imminent hearing condition. the issue is on project boasts. issue exists to teach humanity. there's always more than one side to an issue. more than one face to the reality, two to shoot aware
>> guest: now, we are in university city in west philadelphia. kind originally started in a very small downtown philadelphia and moved in university city, which we've helped make into a via brad arts and culture and economic club. >> host: once again, here is the book. it is "the spirit of compromise: why governing demands it and campaigning undermines it". amy gutmann and dennis thompson are the co-authors. this is booktv on c-span 2. >> if you want to compare...
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during his lifetime he donated the building front of each and every church built in philadelphia. at one point they were building a new hall and it's still there and called the new hall left of independence hall and he wrote the fund-raising document that says even if the constantinople were to stand here to teach us islam and preach to us about mohammed we should offer a pulpit and listen for we might learn something. on his deathbed he is the largest contributor to the synagogue, the first synagogue built in philadelphia. so when he dies instead of his minister accompanying his casket all of the ministers, preachers and priests in philadelphia went on to the rabbi of the jews that is what they were fighting for back then when the country was founded and that's still a struggle that we are in this world today so i hope that you have enjoyed my dissolution of the three lessons of my great heroes. thanks. [applause] time for a couple questions if i may. the person with a virginia t-shirt and in the washington national. >> one of the characteristics i thought you might speak of at l
during his lifetime he donated the building front of each and every church built in philadelphia. at one point they were building a new hall and it's still there and called the new hall left of independence hall and he wrote the fund-raising document that says even if the constantinople were to stand here to teach us islam and preach to us about mohammed we should offer a pulpit and listen for we might learn something. on his deathbed he is the largest contributor to the synagogue, the first...
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there's a garvey chapter in philadelphia. i organized the conference about three years ago on the unia scholarly conference of small number of scholars who were going to present their work but at the last minute i advertised in a local newspaper and 150 garveyites showed up. we were all astonished by this but it gives you a sense there's a lot out there that we need to know more about. >> host: professor hahn, you mention garveyites. whose they're political focus today? >> guest: well, the unia, the universal negro improvement association, there are chapters, a chapter in philadelphia, there are some chapters in the united states. there are chapters elsewhere in the world. i think it's also people who are kind of nationalist in their political views. they might embrace ideas about separatism. and so garvey's ideas or their understand examination sense of connection with africa is very, very powerful, and i think it tends to be especially powerful among sections of african-americans who are working class, poor, whereas the civ
there's a garvey chapter in philadelphia. i organized the conference about three years ago on the unia scholarly conference of small number of scholars who were going to present their work but at the last minute i advertised in a local newspaper and 150 garveyites showed up. we were all astonished by this but it gives you a sense there's a lot out there that we need to know more about. >> host: professor hahn, you mention garveyites. whose they're political focus today? >> guest:...
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opening words of the constitution, written in philadelphia, hence philadelphia sovereignty. but what is philadelphia sovereignty, the people are sovereign, the three constitution and the core of the twin pillars of our liberty and consent. so we do have majority rule, but majority rule is limited reconstitution and the whole system of separation of powers, federalism and limited government. a lot of times people get hung up in the republic or democracy. wary compound machine, a regime that is both liberal and democratic or constitutional republic and. you can use any of these terms. alexander hamilton used the term representative democracy. zÜrich government based on majority rule and consent, but that is limited by a constitution, hence the compound machine. one of the major charges raised against king george the third in the declaration of independence was about sovereignty. i've read that church. he, george the third has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws to their acts of pretended legislation.
opening words of the constitution, written in philadelphia, hence philadelphia sovereignty. but what is philadelphia sovereignty, the people are sovereign, the three constitution and the core of the twin pillars of our liberty and consent. so we do have majority rule, but majority rule is limited reconstitution and the whole system of separation of powers, federalism and limited government. a lot of times people get hung up in the republic or democracy. wary compound machine, a regime that is...
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. >> host: in philadelphia. >> guest: right here in philadelphia. one of the ironies -- so many ironies but one of the powerful ones is the first black president actually is a person who can talk least about race. for him it's a third rail for everyone, it's the third, fourth, and philadelphia rail for him. there's something about race he knows he can't discuss, and part of what he tried to do in that moment was to say, let me say something i think is going to bring people together that is forward thinking and hopefully i'll never have to bring it up again. in some ways it's paranoia. the idea is americans for fatigued about race. so resistant to thinking about racial inclusion, that to even bring up the idea of race too often, folks are going to disqualify you from the highest office in the land and you're not going to be a president for all americans. the positive is there are ways to address all kinds of differences that don't invoke race but brings everyone in. that's a nice model. we don't have to produce race-specific programs to create racial
. >> host: in philadelphia. >> guest: right here in philadelphia. one of the ironies -- so many ironies but one of the powerful ones is the first black president actually is a person who can talk least about race. for him it's a third rail for everyone, it's the third, fourth, and philadelphia rail for him. there's something about race he knows he can't discuss, and part of what he tried to do in that moment was to say, let me say something i think is going to bring people together...
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philadelphia, d.c. and other major cities have the toughest guy mosque, but look at all the gun crime. virginia is one of the major problems because what happens even though governor wilde passed a law limiting handguns to an amount, date and reverse the virginia legislature and so now people will go and another thick and show her or whatever, often time stop to buy cases of guns, transport them up 95 and then find a street corner, open up the trunk and saw the guns. i'd like to mayor to address the phenomenon and white demands federal legislation. thank you. >> mr. kildee, one minute. unless the mayor to answer questions first because he has to leave. >> panel comic thank you for your present during testimony. i represent flint michigan, where over the last two years on the one in every 540 residents have been slain an amazing statistic. i talked to her prosecutor today. his concern is the guns he sees on the street are held at teenagers. not a single one of them acquired legally. my question then i su
philadelphia, d.c. and other major cities have the toughest guy mosque, but look at all the gun crime. virginia is one of the major problems because what happens even though governor wilde passed a law limiting handguns to an amount, date and reverse the virginia legislature and so now people will go and another thick and show her or whatever, often time stop to buy cases of guns, transport them up 95 and then find a street corner, open up the trunk and saw the guns. i'd like to mayor to...
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>> we are in the university city in which philadelphia. pennoyer originally started in what was then 83 sluve ball downtown city of philadelphia and moved to west philadelphia and what we call the university city which helped make into a very vibrant cultural. >> once again come here is the book. the spirit of compromise why government demands it and campaigning undermines it. amy gutmann and dennis thompson are the co-authors. this is book tv on c-span2. >>> from book tv recent visit to providence rhode island author and to the surprise when a journalist michael stanton talks about his book the prince of providence the rise and fall of america's most nefarious -- notorious mayor. >> it's the story of the body anthony, the longest serving mayor in rhode island history. he was lovable and had transformed the city in providence through a city that was rated in the publications and he also presided over the breathtaking corruption over three different decades that ultimately landed in the present and he's a very colorful character. i called h
>> we are in the university city in which philadelphia. pennoyer originally started in what was then 83 sluve ball downtown city of philadelphia and moved to west philadelphia and what we call the university city which helped make into a very vibrant cultural. >> once again come here is the book. the spirit of compromise why government demands it and campaigning undermines it. amy gutmann and dennis thompson are the co-authors. this is book tv on c-span2. >>> from book tv...
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this interview recorded at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia is part of book tv college series and it's about 20 minutes. >>> you are watching book tv on c-span2 and one of the things we like to do is visit college campuses. we can talk to professors' letter authors and showcase books that he might not know about otherwise. we are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania philadelphia joined by the president of the university, amy gutmann and she is the co-author of this book "the spirit of compromise with government demands it and campaigning undermines it." president gutmann are we a completely compromising nation? >> we were created in compromise. a lot of people think of the revolutionary war which separate us from our mother country but if you recall historically speaking the founding fathers crafted a compromise that created the constitution, they were as polarized as any set of americans had been throughout the country in history there were pro and antislavery compromised so yes, we were funded and compromised but today compromise has become more difficult t
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so early 1778, the pennsylvania ledger is in philadelphia. this happens to be under headline you don't see here for mobile papers. but here we have congress, continental congress asking for some of the surrendered items are. so how come the number of muskets as leslie mann of the prisoners and all the muskets are unfit for service? how come the number bayonets be so greatly inferior to that of the musket? what also struck me is benedict arnold industries and helped revitalize the lingering war. dennis and conrad, who wrote the contextual assay for benedict arnold did not section in the book points to the nathaniel greene papers in which he added that all the correspondents whose research, he only found one of cents per nathaniel greene pointed to god, intervening in the revolutionary war and the rooster in the treason uncovering a benedict arnold. nathaniel greene as suggested in this report feels god has intervened in the american revolutionary war and helped the americans uncovered a treasonous five. you also see ubiquity after he becomes h
so early 1778, the pennsylvania ledger is in philadelphia. this happens to be under headline you don't see here for mobile papers. but here we have congress, continental congress asking for some of the surrendered items are. so how come the number of muskets as leslie mann of the prisoners and all the muskets are unfit for service? how come the number bayonets be so greatly inferior to that of the musket? what also struck me is benedict arnold industries and helped revitalize the lingering war....
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we just had a homicide in philadelphia. it was a particularly gruesome scene with multiple shell casings. i asked him when he only saw one shell casing on the ground and he could not remember. and i cannot remember. i don't think people really understand the firepower that's out there on the street. what our citizens have to face everyday. i don't claim to be an expert in the workings of firearms, but i am an expert in terms of the continent they cause on the streets. for those weapons i want to single out because they are the actual weapons that were used. a military style assault weapon, the ar-15. that is in the center there of the middle panel. the 33 brown extended magazine, similar to the one used in tucson, arizona. in which congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot in six people were murdered. that is also in the center display. smith & wesson mp 15 used in aurora colorado when people were shot dead at the very top. and of course, the assault pistol used in the san francisco shooting in which eight people were dead
we just had a homicide in philadelphia. it was a particularly gruesome scene with multiple shell casings. i asked him when he only saw one shell casing on the ground and he could not remember. and i cannot remember. i don't think people really understand the firepower that's out there on the street. what our citizens have to face everyday. i don't claim to be an expert in the workings of firearms, but i am an expert in terms of the continent they cause on the streets. for those weapons i want...
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>> john barnes has emerged in philadelphia. income from investments were going into a john barnes account on which jefferson hosted a tory authority, power of attorney. $4000 of these went into that account and he said right of you use this money for the purposes and so he was using it like a good way of shorts money as collateral in this ingenious method of financial madness that makes today's financial managers the click takers. he was very skillful enough to have access to the money. there's a list of people. that's what he was able to live with the debt. >> did you see the letter written after jefferson started by randolph tried to revive the bill? he wrote to the lawyer in new york who is apparently controlling the funds and said, can we please revive this because i would like to get those funds and free some slaves. i don't know if you >> petite teen 16 will negated the previous close and that was a decision the supreme court. it was a really uphill legal battle to try to get today. >> jefferson didn't have the legal syst
>> john barnes has emerged in philadelphia. income from investments were going into a john barnes account on which jefferson hosted a tory authority, power of attorney. $4000 of these went into that account and he said right of you use this money for the purposes and so he was using it like a good way of shorts money as collateral in this ingenious method of financial madness that makes today's financial managers the click takers. he was very skillful enough to have access to the money....
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>> guest: nuia, there are some chapters, the one in philadelphia, some in the united states, some elsewhere in the world. also people who are kind of nationalist in their political views. they may embrace ideas about separatism so kirby's idea is an understanding and connection with africa is very powerful. i think it tends to be especially powerful with such as african-americans that are working class or pork, whereas the civil rights narrative and movement i think connects more with african-americans who are middle-class and well educated and the civil-rights movement had its greatest accomplishments to promote the expansion of black middle-class in greatest failures of african-americans who are working class. >> host: on location at university of philadelphia talking with history of professor comment professor hahn. >> i am now teaching a course on the south from the civil war through may 20th century. i also teach a lecture course called slavery, race and revolution started with the haitian revolution of the late 18th century and goes through a frites sort i'd like emancipation in the b
>> guest: nuia, there are some chapters, the one in philadelphia, some in the united states, some elsewhere in the world. also people who are kind of nationalist in their political views. they may embrace ideas about separatism so kirby's idea is an understanding and connection with africa is very powerful. i think it tends to be especially powerful with such as african-americans that are working class or pork, whereas the civil rights narrative and movement i think connects more with...
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it's a black -- one very old newspaper in philadelphia and it turned out that the president of the "philadelphia tribune" contacted me and said i want to change the newspaper i want economics. he hired me to write a column once a week and then i was discovered, as it was in 19 oil, when the heritage foundation was started a syndicated column, and they invited me to be on the syndicate, and i fell over. ed grimesly the editorial of the times and said he loved the columns but said nobody is reading it. you ought to accept the syndication. it you write a column, we will carry it. and they have been carrying my column for thirty some years. >> host: what is the story on the creator syndicate? >> guest: it represents, ever -- it was a friendly take over of the heritage features, her timing features was a syndicated and i think maybe five, six, seven years it was taken over by creators and new people. and he was the president of it and he respects writers and i enjoy working with him. >> host: another name association. malcolm x. >> guest: malcolm x. during the civil rights movement he was kind of a h
it's a black -- one very old newspaper in philadelphia and it turned out that the president of the "philadelphia tribune" contacted me and said i want to change the newspaper i want economics. he hired me to write a column once a week and then i was discovered, as it was in 19 oil, when the heritage foundation was started a syndicated column, and they invited me to be on the syndicate, and i fell over. ed grimesly the editorial of the times and said he loved the columns but said...
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he was on the run from the troops come in and lincoln had exposed himself to danger in philadelphia. >> let me ask you a question about lincoln and the davis. what do you think is more difficult and let me mention that as i example in the political arena for a politician to become the commander in chief. here we had lincoln and jeff davis, and geoff davis had the secretary of cole war and here in the mexican war so she had to become a politician in a way not that human beings aren't, but what do you think is the more difficult if there is one that is more difficult. >> i think it is a terrific question. davis had trouble with politics at the beginning of the war. he had trouble validating the idea that as a constitution the was going to be very federal oriented when the country is predicated do that could predicated on the state rights in the conundrum he had a better communicator. for a year or more he struggled in the political world, and it was devastating to the fortunes of the confederacy in a week because he built up so many enemies within what was supposed to be the united fro
he was on the run from the troops come in and lincoln had exposed himself to danger in philadelphia. >> let me ask you a question about lincoln and the davis. what do you think is more difficult and let me mention that as i example in the political arena for a politician to become the commander in chief. here we had lincoln and jeff davis, and geoff davis had the secretary of cole war and here in the mexican war so she had to become a politician in a way not that human beings aren't, but...
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this interview, part of booktv's college series, was recorded at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. it's about 20 minutes. >> host: university of pennsylvania professor sarah gordon, "the spirit of the law" is her most recent book. what do you mean when you talk about the old constitutional world and the new constitutional world when it comes to religion? >> guest: well, for most of our nation's history, it was the states rather than federal government that controlled access to religious worship, the rights of religious organizations and so on. and in the early decades of the 20th century, that began to shift as the supreme court applied the national constitutional establishment and free exercise clauses of the first amendment against the states sort of centralizing debates about religion. >> host: but if the states had the control, we had it written into our constitution, freedom of religion. >> guest: we did, indeed. but the first amendment begins "congress shall enact no law." so it was addressed only to the national government. >> host: were there restrictions by different stat
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>> the newsroom of the philadelphia inquirer. it was interesting. we were both hired. >> guest: we actually arrived on the same >> we arrived on the same day. >> same day. we never knew each other and had no contact during the first year. >> host: routine you up? >> guest: a veteran of the paper, the paper changed ownership and he was very interested in projects, and investigative projects, enterprise journalism and he thought the two of us were newcomers, might be able to work together. very often that doesn't work and people don't like to work together. we tried an experiment and so far so good. hey say. >> host: why did it work for so long? >> guest: we think it worked because a similarity of work ethics. we both love to research and report. we love to research and report and we were of sound mind and it makes for a sound mind that is hard for all of us but it was similar work habits, we believed down deep in fairness, government, private interest, not always treat the average person fairly and we sort of realize that early on in the partnership
>> the newsroom of the philadelphia inquirer. it was interesting. we were both hired. >> guest: we actually arrived on the same >> we arrived on the same day. >> same day. we never knew each other and had no contact during the first year. >> host: routine you up? >> guest: a veteran of the paper, the paper changed ownership and he was very interested in projects, and investigative projects, enterprise journalism and he thought the two of us were newcomers,...
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speaking of them, one of the reasons, hurtling back to philadelphia, i have to hold office hours with the lovely the 0 ivy brats. i bet get home and sleep well all the we haven't slept wilson's the jimmy carter administration. thank you, you holding up is the key. i bet i won't even have time to formally say thank you and goodbye. i will the say to miles how eloquent his little segway introduction has been and tell him goodbye and all rest of you for coming. i am supposed to read some things. i was fretting about that -- what that would be because i wanted to make it very short. i wanted to read from the end of the prologue. one of the things that i was trying to stress in the talk that i gave yesterday and the panel that i appeared on the day before is for all of the undeniable, appalling, dark side of ernest hemingway there was also the light, there was this bone of generosity. sometimes it came out best when a child was involved, and not his own child necessarily and especially an ill child who wouldn't respond to that. but he seemed to respond in a special way. so i was thinking o
speaking of them, one of the reasons, hurtling back to philadelphia, i have to hold office hours with the lovely the 0 ivy brats. i bet get home and sleep well all the we haven't slept wilson's the jimmy carter administration. thank you, you holding up is the key. i bet i won't even have time to formally say thank you and goodbye. i will the say to miles how eloquent his little segway introduction has been and tell him goodbye and all rest of you for coming. i am supposed to read some things. i...
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hello from a longtime philadelphia "philadelphia inquirer" reader. would you consider writing a book about the inequities and other problems in our country's judicial system at all levels? thank you all for your work. >> guest: wow, that's a very good idea. >> guest: that's a great subject. >> guest: i think anybody who knows the least thing about that issue knows that. and, actually, there have been some very interesting documentaries hately on one was called, i believe, the 1% court that talks about how many judicial decisions are, essentially, favoring a handful of people. so that's a very fruitful area. and it's interesting she would raise this question, too, because a totally different thing; second big project don and i did for the "philadelphia inquirer" back in '72 was an examination of the criminal justice system in which we used a computer. and a friend of ours knew how to program tease things, and we amass -- these things, and we amazed thousands of records about the administration of violent crime in the city for one year. and it's a litt
hello from a longtime philadelphia "philadelphia inquirer" reader. would you consider writing a book about the inequities and other problems in our country's judicial system at all levels? thank you all for your work. >> guest: wow, that's a very good idea. >> guest: that's a great subject. >> guest: i think anybody who knows the least thing about that issue knows that. and, actually, there have been some very interesting documentaries hately on one was called, i...
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coincidentally, the next day, the third newspaper started in philadelphia, the american -- circulation. the top 100 newspapers in america average circulation approximately 200,000. at the time of the american revolution the average circulation was approximately 600. now that sounds awfully low but keep in mind these newspapers were also read aloud in taverns and private homes in so while subscribership or circulation might be low, actual readership is quite significant. distribution. we have internet. we have telephone, or i'm sorry tv and radio today. back then the distribution of newspapers was done primarily through horseback and ship, commonly called tech abodes. the timeline. today news is instantaneous and on-demand. you can flip open your phone and have almost real-time news at your fingertips. 200 plus years ago the news came weekly. i'm sorry, the news came weekly and so the time like you would open a newspaper and he would find news that was anywhere from a day old to a 2-month-old. a large part of that was just the transit time that had to go into how far the news traveled t
coincidentally, the next day, the third newspaper started in philadelphia, the american -- circulation. the top 100 newspapers in america average circulation approximately 200,000. at the time of the american revolution the average circulation was approximately 600. now that sounds awfully low but keep in mind these newspapers were also read aloud in taverns and private homes in so while subscribership or circulation might be low, actual readership is quite significant. distribution. we have...
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we're in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania, and we're interview something professors. who also happen to be authors. we want to introduce you to the dean of the university of pennsylvania school of social policy and practice, this is richard gelles on your screen one of his books, his most recent, is called: "the third lie: why government programs don't work and a blueprint for change." dr. gelless, i'm here from the government and i'm here to help you true? >> guest: not true. >> host: why? >> guest: they don't tallly help in some instances it's little more than -- i hate to say that's -- the good-gooddedder employment act, lots of people would like to help, but if you look at whether the needle has moved and'em have been helped by substantial amounts of government programs and money, the bottom line is very rarely are people helped. and i thought that it was a story worth telling. the idea came to me as i was being smuggled into the back door of the state house in the state of hawai'i for a meeting with the secretary, the speaker of the house. hawai'i was spending a
we're in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania, and we're interview something professors. who also happen to be authors. we want to introduce you to the dean of the university of pennsylvania school of social policy and practice, this is richard gelles on your screen one of his books, his most recent, is called: "the third lie: why government programs don't work and a blueprint for change." dr. gelless, i'm here from the government and i'm here to help you true? >>...
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. >> host: booktv on c-span2 on location at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. at the annenberg school of communication currently joining us is the theme michael x. delli carpini what is the annenberg school of communication? >> we do research for the public consumption and a ph.d. training and graduate training that media and communication influence social practice and health and cultural practice. >> we're here to talk about your book "after broadcast news" media regimes, democracy, and the new information environment" but it seems that we have been to be -- debating the broadcast news scenario. to put it into historical context the basic argument is over the last 20 years there is a number of changes changing the
. >> host: booktv on c-span2 on location at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. at the annenberg school of communication currently joining us is the theme michael x. delli carpini what is the annenberg school of communication? >> we do research for the public consumption and a ph.d. training and graduate training that media and communication influence social practice and health and cultural practice. >> we're here to talk about your book "after broadcast...
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we're in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania, and we're interviewing some professors who also happen to be authors. and we want to introduce you to the dean of the university of pennsylvania's school of social policy and practice. this is richard gelles on your screen. and one of his books, his most recent, is called "the third lie: why government programs don't work and a blue print for change." dr. gelles, i'm here from the government, and i'm here to help you. is that not true? >> guest: not true. >> host: why not? >> guest: because most government social programs which are designed to help people don't actually help. in some instances it is little more than the, i hate saying this, but the do-gooder full employment act. it provides lots of jobs for people who'd like the help, but at the end of the day if you look at whether the needle has been moved and people have really been helped by substantial government programs and substantial amounts of money, the bottom line is very rarely are people hemmed. helped. and i thought that that was a story worth telling. the idea came
we're in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania, and we're interviewing some professors who also happen to be authors. and we want to introduce you to the dean of the university of pennsylvania's school of social policy and practice. this is richard gelles on your screen. and one of his books, his most recent, is called "the third lie: why government programs don't work and a blue print for change." dr. gelles, i'm here from the government, and i'm here to help you. is that...
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the third newspaper started in philadelphia. circulation, the top 100 newspapers is approximately 200,000. at the time of the american revolution, the average circulation was approximately 600. that sounds awfully low but keep in mind these newspapers were also read allowed at meeting houses and private homes. while circulation might be low, actual readership is quite significant. distribution, we have internet, we are temp, i'm sorry, tv and radio today. back then distribution of newspapers was done primarily through horseback and ship commonly called pack -- the timeline today news is instay contain use. it's on demand you can flip open your phone and have almost real time news at your finger tip. 200 plus years ago the news came weekly, and -- i'm sorry the news came weekly with a time lag you find news anywhere from a day old to several months old. a large paves the amount of transit time that had to go how far the news traveled to reach that printer. for instance, you might have news coming from ascroses the atlantic. the t
the third newspaper started in philadelphia. circulation, the top 100 newspapers is approximately 200,000. at the time of the american revolution, the average circulation was approximately 600. that sounds awfully low but keep in mind these newspapers were also read allowed at meeting houses and private homes. while circulation might be low, actual readership is quite significant. distribution, we have internet, we are temp, i'm sorry, tv and radio today. back then distribution of newspapers...
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penn and speaking of them one of the reasons i am hurtling back to cold philadelphia's because i have to hold office hours tomorrow with the little i.v. brats. i best to get home and sleep well or try to sleep well although my wife and i say we haven't slept well since the jimmy carter administration. [laughter] thank you so much. you are holding us up. i think that's the key. and i bet i won't even have time to formally say thank you and good by two miles so i will just say two miles how eloquent his little segue introductions have been and tell him goodbye and are low and all the rest of you for coming. i am supposed to read something. i was fretting about what that would be because i wanted to make it very short. i am going to read from the end of the prologue. one of the things that i was trying to stress in the talk that i gave yesterday and indeed the panel that i had appeared on the day before is that for all of the undeniable, appalling, dark side of ernest hemingway there was also the light. there was this bone of generosity and sometimes it came out best when a child was inv
penn and speaking of them one of the reasons i am hurtling back to cold philadelphia's because i have to hold office hours tomorrow with the little i.v. brats. i best to get home and sleep well or try to sleep well although my wife and i say we haven't slept well since the jimmy carter administration. [laughter] thank you so much. you are holding us up. i think that's the key. and i bet i won't even have time to formally say thank you and good by two miles so i will just say two miles how...
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ladies -- the first think thomas jefferson did after spending 1 days cooped up in a loft outside of philadelphia, writing the declaration of independence, the first thing he did was he went shopping for martha, his wife. he was pregnant and had had a miscarriage, and he bought her some gloves. then he begged off from serving for the rest of the summer so he could go home to be with his wife. every within -- every interof -- every winter of the revolutionary war, there was martha washington. i propose washington's closer advisor was alexander hamilton, and one chapter talks about hamilton's history of womanizing, bill clinton was not the first and was not the worst when it comes to misbehavior and high office. there's a long history. itot spitzer, arnold schwarzenegger, david petraeus, had nothing on alexander hamilton. if you read letters written by martha washington during those winter camps, she was like a soldier. she didn't complain about in the weather or the harsh conditions. she did complain about one thing. there was a tom cat one winter that was misbehaving with the lacy cats and it was
ladies -- the first think thomas jefferson did after spending 1 days cooped up in a loft outside of philadelphia, writing the declaration of independence, the first thing he did was he went shopping for martha, his wife. he was pregnant and had had a miscarriage, and he bought her some gloves. then he begged off from serving for the rest of the summer so he could go home to be with his wife. every within -- every interof -- every winter of the revolutionary war, there was martha washington. i...
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a veteran reporter began her career right in philadelphia to bulletin newspaper in philadelphia daily news. she also served as adjunct professor club university school of journalism. .. >> now everything private about us is not in the house. we we have to find out ways to protect things that we care about and so forth. so we talking about? well, the names of the organizations of the services that we are talking about, who are we talking about? >> we are talking about not only states, but think about it, private data affects 800 million people. it will be the third largest nation in the world after china that has its own currency and economy. and yet, there is no revelation about what can be posted in the government can try to get information off of social networking sites. we are talking about companies that made a deal with internet service providers in california in order to put their hardware. they could copy and analyze every web search mitigation was just a settlement, but we have to think about the way it our private information has become public and potentially monetize them ou
a veteran reporter began her career right in philadelphia to bulletin newspaper in philadelphia daily news. she also served as adjunct professor club university school of journalism. .. >> now everything private about us is not in the house. we we have to find out ways to protect things that we care about and so forth. so we talking about? well, the names of the organizations of the services that we are talking about, who are we talking about? >> we are talking about not only...
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barrington gordon is professor of constitutional law and history at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia and the author most recently of this book, "the spirit of the law" religious voices and the constitution in modern america. >> guest: thank you so much. up next week for for the start billing and special collections of the -- >> to climb up those steps and make your way in and then to arrive at the top of the steps and see the mezzanine filled with books and the bus, it's inspiring. i love when we have visitors that come in for the first time. they walk in the front door and usually if it's someone that is new to the building the first thing i hear is a giant oh and then the next work out of their mouth is oh my goodness, this is what a library should look like. part of what i find, sometimes overwhelming but totally gratifying is that this institution has existed for hundreds of years and every day when i come into work i get to contribute to history. the atheneum is this wonderful -- in the historic providence. we are one of about 17 membership libraries that exist in the country to
barrington gordon is professor of constitutional law and history at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia and the author most recently of this book, "the spirit of the law" religious voices and the constitution in modern america. >> guest: thank you so much. up next week for for the start billing and special collections of the -- >> to climb up those steps and make your way in and then to arrive at the top of the steps and see the mezzanine filled with books and...
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>> guest: i married carolyn white, who was an editor whom i met in philadelphia and is an editor to this day consulting to a magazine in new york, mirabella. she really was the full-time editor on this book. it would be even harder to lift were it not for her. in due time we had a daughter ruby who lives with us out in cambridge, maryland. c-span: hard to lift. i've been carrying this thing around, trying to read it. >> guest: my sympathies. i always tell my friends it's easier to read than it is to carry. c-span: you really don't know where to start. i want to ask you about the candidates in just a second. one more thing -- where physically did you write the book? >> guest: i wrote it at a word processor in my house in cambridge. i have an upstairs office. i actually have two computers set up -- one with notes, one for copy. from those two keyboards this book emerged. c-span: did you tape record any of your interviews? >> guest: i did tape some, yes. c-span: what have you done with all those tapes? >> guest: actually we have a very happy ceremonial pitching out of all of the things we h
>> guest: i married carolyn white, who was an editor whom i met in philadelphia and is an editor to this day consulting to a magazine in new york, mirabella. she really was the full-time editor on this book. it would be even harder to lift were it not for her. in due time we had a daughter ruby who lives with us out in cambridge, maryland. c-span: hard to lift. i've been carrying this thing around, trying to read it. >> guest: my sympathies. i always tell my friends it's easier to...
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first of all, philadelphia was a four or five-day ride at best. the and then it is an alien culture. it is not a southern culture. so the blacks once they got their freedom they went to the district and they flocked to the district. there were jobs there. opportunity was there. slavery was legal there, but the civil of slavery in washington, again, this was a big surprise to me. this was not plantation safeliry. mrs. thornton, mrs. thornton had a guy, a servant she owned, a man named george plant, and he was her driver and kind of the jack-of-all-trades who kept the house up, fixed all the wagons and did all that. well, george plant had a wife who was free. she lived in georgetown and he had four kids and they were free. he would go home at night. in the morning, so he was a slave who commuted. [laughter] but that was, i mean that was one of the variations of slavery in washington at that time. so a lot of slaves made money by their owners would hire them out. your owner would say, okay, you are hired out to the owner of a hotel. you would be a wa
first of all, philadelphia was a four or five-day ride at best. the and then it is an alien culture. it is not a southern culture. so the blacks once they got their freedom they went to the district and they flocked to the district. there were jobs there. opportunity was there. slavery was legal there, but the civil of slavery in washington, again, this was a big surprise to me. this was not plantation safeliry. mrs. thornton, mrs. thornton had a guy, a servant she owned, a man named george...
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. >> next, in an interview recorded at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia, stories about her experiences serving on the united states commission set up by president ivan not -- eisenhower. this is about half an hour. >> well, on your screen now on book tv is a well-known face for c-span yours. that is mary frances berry, a professor at the university of pennsylvania, also the author of several books. at the university of pennsylvania today to talk to her about this book. the nets is commission on civil rights and the continuing struggle for freedom in america. mary frances berry, when did the u.s. civil rights commission began and why? >> is started in 1957. president eisenhower had had a lot of discussions with the secretary of state about the way the united states was seen around the world because of a lot of the racism that was going on and people here about and read about. the fact that this seemed to be a lot of episodes that kept happening and whether it was launching or some kind of discrimination that was taking place in the country so that the idea was eisenhower
. >> next, in an interview recorded at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia, stories about her experiences serving on the united states commission set up by president ivan not -- eisenhower. this is about half an hour. >> well, on your screen now on book tv is a well-known face for c-span yours. that is mary frances berry, a professor at the university of pennsylvania, also the author of several books. at the university of pennsylvania today to talk to her about this book....
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now, one of the great if some history is what if jefferson had been at philadelphia? it's interesting that two of america's greatest thinkers, greatest writers, john adams and thomas jefferson were not at philadelphia. adams was the american minister to the court of st. james. jefferson and the american minister to paris. jefferson made a tremendous contribution. from paris he sent to his friend madison over 200 bucks on political theory, political fallout from history and i wasn't able to verify, but my semis is that some of those books must have been about the dutch federation which is very instructive for madison and the delegates when they are thinking about that. and of course montesquieu which is the separation of powers. but jefferson was not there. he did get his hands on a copy very quickly of the constitution. we immelt him a copy over their test this for shavit problem bill of rights. george mason was one of the members of the virginia delegation. he had written the delegation state of rights for virginia in 1776 and it actually was a few months before jeff
now, one of the great if some history is what if jefferson had been at philadelphia? it's interesting that two of america's greatest thinkers, greatest writers, john adams and thomas jefferson were not at philadelphia. adams was the american minister to the court of st. james. jefferson and the american minister to paris. jefferson made a tremendous contribution. from paris he sent to his friend madison over 200 bucks on political theory, political fallout from history and i wasn't able to...
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. >>> next in an interview recorded at the university of pennsylvania at philadelphia mary francis berry shares her stories about serving on the united states commission on civil rights. set ultimate by president eisenhower in 1957. this is about a half an hour. >>> on your screen now on booktv is a well known face for c-span viewers. that's mary francis berry. professor at the university of pennsylvania. she's also the author of several books. at the university of pennsylvania today to talk to her about this book. "and justice for all." "and justice for all: the united states commission on civil rights and the continuing struggle for freedom in america" mary francis berry, when did the u.s. civil rights commission begin and why? >> well, it started in 1957. president eisenhower had a lot of discussions with secretary of state about the way the united states was seen around the world because a lot of the racism that was going on that people would hear about and read about. and the fact that there seemed to be a lot of episodes that kept happening whether it was lynching or some kind of d
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lady, for example the first and thomas jefferson did, after spending 13 days and it lost outside of philadelphia bred in the declaration of independence, he went shopping for his wife. he mr. she was preggers. she had a miscarriage and game mastering batterson gloves. then he begged off from serving the rest of the summer so he could go home to monticello to be with his wife. every winter of the revolutionary war, right there besides george washington, suffering through the freezing weather was martha washington with her white on at cannes. so we get new insight on the price and the new insight than others needs. by proposing that book washington's closest adviser with alexander hamilton one of the chapters in the book talks about hamilton's history of womanizing. for example, bill clinton was not the first were the worst when it comes to this behavior in high office. at least this at least this year, armatures maker, john edwards, david pictures had not been alexander hamilton. if we read letters written by martha washington during this winter camps, she was like a soldier. she didn't complain
lady, for example the first and thomas jefferson did, after spending 13 days and it lost outside of philadelphia bred in the declaration of independence, he went shopping for his wife. he mr. she was preggers. she had a miscarriage and game mastering batterson gloves. then he begged off from serving the rest of the summer so he could go home to monticello to be with his wife. every winter of the revolutionary war, right there besides george washington, suffering through the freezing weather was...
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father came over, i was very interested in these definitions and so when he creates a free library of philadelphia, is seen as an act of resistance against the british. noah webster saves us through history. it was also part of these acts against the british. webster is one of the early people and jefferson is probably the lead on this. he creates words with great abandon and he just loves to create words and chuck a jibe at the british with words. write a letter to john adams and says, our duty as americans -- he creates the word meola jives and jefferson is creating all these words. he created ottoman for the footstool. jefferson was the coiner or introducer, the first one to actually bring them into the mainstream and the list is really sort of fascinating. pedicure is his world. mono crowd is his word. the one that he does the most weight and becomes the most egregious is the word belittled. he creates the word a little. he knows what he's up to and he knows he's creating something is going to be very disturbing. noah webster loves the word and one of his teachers at yale writes in a letter ab
father came over, i was very interested in these definitions and so when he creates a free library of philadelphia, is seen as an act of resistance against the british. noah webster saves us through history. it was also part of these acts against the british. webster is one of the early people and jefferson is probably the lead on this. he creates words with great abandon and he just loves to create words and chuck a jibe at the british with words. write a letter to john adams and says, our...
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i don't think in philadelphia but in new york and chicago and westchester and albany. he does not where we wanted to be. he demanded much from roosevelt, and roosevelt gave it to him. he named him the first ambassador, the first irish catholic ambassador of the court of st. james. he became the ambassador to great britain. it was one of the worst decisions i ever made. he knew but somehow believe that he could keep kennedy and check what he could. when kennedy talked to his children, he was a cheerleader and an optimist. in his relationship to the world around him and the 20th century, he made his pile of money and he was convinced that it was going to be taken from him. he was convinced that it would be taken from the united states that the united states entered the war. entered world war ii on behalf of the british. nothing is more important than making sure that there was no war. keeping britain out of the water and then the united states out of the war. and he did everything that he possibly could. he violated protocol, he did not file orders. he met secretly with
i don't think in philadelphia but in new york and chicago and westchester and albany. he does not where we wanted to be. he demanded much from roosevelt, and roosevelt gave it to him. he named him the first ambassador, the first irish catholic ambassador of the court of st. james. he became the ambassador to great britain. it was one of the worst decisions i ever made. he knew but somehow believe that he could keep kennedy and check what he could. when kennedy talked to his children, he was a...
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on june 14, 1849, 2 weeks after broderick first set foot in san francisco, someone had torched the philadelphia at dockside. a series of had gotten people to thinking, but no action was taken. thinking was hard, and a little frightening. as christmas approached, people forgot to even think. instead they indeed nations fear and hinckley's shelves of overpriced gifts, based in fresh water at $3 a barrel, and curled up before the fires to shiver. none were willing to take the least nominal steps for preventing the tragedy they so feared. in which broderick who is experienced knew was inevitable. instead, they pressed their noses against their windowpanes and watched black water flow down the muddy streets to the shallow cove. a horseshoe shape in the western shore filled with abandon ship's. i would like to say something about these ships. i've written another book that deals with these, an entire city, there's 25,000 people in san francisco between 1849, and a graduate built to about 1851. but on board the ships are perfectly good ships. people have gone to the goldrush. they jumped overboard. an
on june 14, 1849, 2 weeks after broderick first set foot in san francisco, someone had torched the philadelphia at dockside. a series of had gotten people to thinking, but no action was taken. thinking was hard, and a little frightening. as christmas approached, people forgot to even think. instead they indeed nations fear and hinckley's shelves of overpriced gifts, based in fresh water at $3 a barrel, and curled up before the fires to shiver. none were willing to take the least nominal steps...
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first lady, the first thing thomas jefferson did after spending 17 days cooped up in of lost outside a philadelphia writing the declaration of independence, the first thing he did is he went shopping for market, his wife. he mr. she was pregnant. she had had a miscarriage. he bought her some gloves. then he begged off from serving for the rest of the summer so he could go home to be with his wife. every winter of the revolutionary war. suffering through the freezing weather at valley forge was martha washington right there. so by studying the first lady's we get new insights on the presidents and new insights on other things. apropos to my book washington's closest adviser was alexander hamilton. one of the chapters in the book talks about hamiltons history of womanizing. for example not the first. there is a long long history of the. elliott spencer, arnold schwarzenegger, john edwards, these guys had nothing on alexander hamilton. and what we find is if you really -- letters written by martha washington, she was tough shouldn't complain about the weather. she did complain about the harsh conditio
first lady, the first thing thomas jefferson did after spending 17 days cooped up in of lost outside a philadelphia writing the declaration of independence, the first thing he did is he went shopping for market, his wife. he mr. she was pregnant. she had had a miscarriage. he bought her some gloves. then he begged off from serving for the rest of the summer so he could go home to be with his wife. every winter of the revolutionary war. suffering through the freezing weather at valley forge was...
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that less is more which is what i try to tell my students and speaking of them i'm hurtling back to philadelphia we have to hold office hours with a little brats to sleep well although my wife and i say that we haven't slept well since the jimmy carter administration. thank you so much. and as just said, holding out, you holding us up, that is the key. and i bet i won't even have time to say thank you and goodbye so i will just say to miles cowal eloquent his little segue introductions have been and to all of the rest of you for coming. i am supposed to read something. i was forgetting about that with a would-be because i was going to make it a very short. i was going to read from the end of the prologue. one of the things i was stressing in the talk i gave yesterday and in the panel that i appear on the day before is that for all of the undeniable, appalling dark side of ernest hemingway there was also the light. it cannot best when a child was involved especially and ill child who wouldn't respond to that but seemed to respond in a special way. so i was thinking of reading something of a key w
that less is more which is what i try to tell my students and speaking of them i'm hurtling back to philadelphia we have to hold office hours with a little brats to sleep well although my wife and i say that we haven't slept well since the jimmy carter administration. thank you so much. and as just said, holding out, you holding us up, that is the key. and i bet i won't even have time to say thank you and goodbye so i will just say to miles cowal eloquent his little segue introductions have...
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first, the constitutional convention of southern philadelphia and the crisis of 1820 which had to do with the admission of missouri as a slave state and the future of slavery in the budget, which would much more than the state of louisiana and covered almost all the territory of the rocky mountains to texas. it was settled by the south carolina federal government. finally, the late 1840s and the battle over mexico following the mexican war is followed by the compromise of 1850. we look at these examples of tradition for that settlement to take place in 1861. the issue involves slavery. but not slavery in the 15 states where it existed. almost all americans, republicans included, believe that the constitution protected slavery and states where it existed. the critical question was geographically of the states of what we think of today as the great plains and the rocky mountains and california. it didn't include california because california was already state. the question was critical because it had to do with the future of slavery in the future of southern power in the nation. some h
first, the constitutional convention of southern philadelphia and the crisis of 1820 which had to do with the admission of missouri as a slave state and the future of slavery in the budget, which would much more than the state of louisiana and covered almost all the territory of the rocky mountains to texas. it was settled by the south carolina federal government. finally, the late 1840s and the battle over mexico following the mexican war is followed by the compromise of 1850. we look at these...
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in philadelphia, the executive director's salary was $300,000 plus a $45,000 bonus. we had a housing authority -- he had a housing authority car and driver and the housing authority fuell actually paid hs mortgage. this money is supposed to help people with very low incomes afford safe and decent housing, but instead they were concerned about their own salary, their own housing and the taxpayers' money was meant to go to lower-income people for safe and decent housing and all the money wasn't being used for that. it's not supposed to subsidize the housing costs of a government bureaucrat in philadelphia who already makes $345,000 a year. in chelsea, massachusetts, the executive director's salary was $360,000. he cashed out weeks of unused leave and sick time while only spending about 15 full days per year in the office. these executive directors used taxpayers' money to build and protect their own fiefdoms, usually at the expense of the poor. in philadelphia, this included spending millions of dollars on an army of well-connected lawyers. ironically, these lawyers we
in philadelphia, the executive director's salary was $300,000 plus a $45,000 bonus. we had a housing authority -- he had a housing authority car and driver and the housing authority fuell actually paid hs mortgage. this money is supposed to help people with very low incomes afford safe and decent housing, but instead they were concerned about their own salary, their own housing and the taxpayers' money was meant to go to lower-income people for safe and decent housing and all the money wasn't...
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example, the first thing thomas jefferson did after spending 17 days cooped up in eight lost outside of philadelphia writing the declaration of independence, the first thing he does go shopping. he went shopping for martha, his wife. mr. she was preggers. she had had a miscarriage. he mr., and he bought her some clothes. then he begged off from serving for the rest of the summer so that he could go home to monticello to be with his wife. every winter of the revolutionary war, right there in campus is george washington suffering through the freezing weather at valley forge was martha washington with her white on it right there in camp. so by studying the first ladies, we get new insights, i think, the presidents and other things. also, washington's closest adviser was alexander hamilton. and one of the chapters in the book talks about hamiltons history of womanizing. for example, bill clinton was not the first, and bill clinton was not the worst when it came to his behavior and high office. there is a long, long history of it. spitzer, a schwarzenegger, john edwards, these guys demint david patraeus,
example, the first thing thomas jefferson did after spending 17 days cooped up in eight lost outside of philadelphia writing the declaration of independence, the first thing he does go shopping. he went shopping for martha, his wife. mr. she was preggers. she had had a miscarriage. he mr., and he bought her some clothes. then he begged off from serving for the rest of the summer so that he could go home to monticello to be with his wife. every winter of the revolutionary war, right there in...
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new york, philadelphia, richmond, paris, london, holland, he was everywhere the action was, irresistibly drawn to it. because as a young man he entered into what he called the doubtful election between submission and the sword. the american revolution shipped him and grabbed him in a way few historical events of grab any generation or any man. i think he thought of the revolution almost as an organic fame. almost as a child that was adopted or created by this group of mostly men who would preserve and nurture it and feed it and make sure it survived its adolescence and could grow up and continue to thrive. the connection to the revolution and promise of republican liberty for jefferson was that incident. to the end of his days he and adams corresponding a way about the revolution that was proprietary, not in a bad way but -- because they soak cared about the definition of america and survival and success of america. they did that, what drove jefferson in this case was this fear that the revolution would be swallowed up as every other revolution virtually in the world had been by the forc
new york, philadelphia, richmond, paris, london, holland, he was everywhere the action was, irresistibly drawn to it. because as a young man he entered into what he called the doubtful election between submission and the sword. the american revolution shipped him and grabbed him in a way few historical events of grab any generation or any man. i think he thought of the revolution almost as an organic fame. almost as a child that was adopted or created by this group of mostly men who would...
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, different outlooks on things, when they came together, i think that the 55 people who gathered in philadelphia had most of them -- not all of them -- most of them had an imperative that they were going to create something like a representative democracy or republic out of all of these different elements. and they had to give up almost everything but that. they came with a whole lot of different ideas about what they were going to do, and nobody came away with exactly what they wanted. most people didn't come away with anything close to what they wanted, except that very remarkable thing. >> host: now, these are very polarized time, the congress in the 1790s is as polar rises or more as today, if you note in your book, if we think the media is polar rised today, we haven't seen anything like then. so how were they able to compromise then, in similarly polarized times it's hard to compromise. >> guest: they didn't like it anymore than we do. somebody said -- never been able to track this quote down, maybe you know who said it. said, politics is compromised, everything else is theater. and i thin
, different outlooks on things, when they came together, i think that the 55 people who gathered in philadelphia had most of them -- not all of them -- most of them had an imperative that they were going to create something like a representative democracy or republic out of all of these different elements. and they had to give up almost everything but that. they came with a whole lot of different ideas about what they were going to do, and nobody came away with exactly what they wanted. most...
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when they came together, the 55 who gathered in philadelphia had most of them, not all of them. most of them had an imperative that they were going to create something like a representative democracy out of all these different element. they had to give up almost everything but that. they came with a lot of different ideas about what they were going to do and nobody came away with what they wanted. except a very remarkable thing. >> host: these are very polarized times. congress and the 1790s is as polarized. if we think the media polarized our intent today, we have been anything. so how were they able to compromise plan went similarly polarized times it's hard for us to compromise them? >> guest: they didn't like it better than we liked it. somebody said in the ever been able to track this boat. maybe you know who sent it. politics is compromise, everything else is theater. we have a lot of theater right now, but i think the compromises are going to happen, too. >> host: what do we do to create the environment that promotes compromise? is it just something that happens in the na
when they came together, the 55 who gathered in philadelphia had most of them, not all of them. most of them had an imperative that they were going to create something like a representative democracy out of all these different element. they had to give up almost everything but that. they came with a lot of different ideas about what they were going to do and nobody came away with what they wanted. except a very remarkable thing. >> host: these are very polarized times. congress and the...
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. >> next interview at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia, mary frances berry share stories of her experience on the united states commission on civil rights set up by president eisenhower in 1857. this is about half an hour. >> on your screen now is a well-known face for c-span viewers. that's mary frances berry, professor at the university of pennsylvania and also the author several books. with university of pennsylvania today to chat to her about this book, "and justice for all: the united states commission on civil rights and the continuing struggle for freedom in america" . mary frances berry, when did the u.s. civil rights commission began? >> guest: the civil rights missions started in 1957. president eisenhower had a lot of discussions with john foster dulles, secretary of state, but the way the united states is in or on the road because of the racism going on that people would hear about and read about. and the fact that there seem to be a lot of episodes that kept happening, whether it is one chain or some discrimination taking place in the country said the idea wa
. >> next interview at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia, mary frances berry share stories of her experience on the united states commission on civil rights set up by president eisenhower in 1857. this is about half an hour. >> on your screen now is a well-known face for c-span viewers. that's mary frances berry, professor at the university of pennsylvania and also the author several books. with university of pennsylvania today to chat to her about this book, "and...
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so it took a little while to get up to austin from philadelphia, but it got your. abigail adams was in the crowd in the intersection and wrote to her husband, john, and said, it was crazy. after the declaration was read. everything british was ripped down and burned in the middle of the intersection immediately after the reading, including the unicorn that flank the eastside that was put up in 1881. but immediately it was one of the first few things that was ripped off the symbols of british authority and burned in the middle of the intersection. so a little rambunctious. in boston. it continued to be, but before that in 1770 come on march 5, the boston massacre happened just outside the intersection as well. something we're very all familiar with and something that bob allison contributed to in the book as well as his own book on that. but another rambunctious event in the city of boston. so just right outside this building itself. now we're going to turn to a panel discussion, which will be in the fashion of question and answer session. this mic in the middle of
so it took a little while to get up to austin from philadelphia, but it got your. abigail adams was in the crowd in the intersection and wrote to her husband, john, and said, it was crazy. after the declaration was read. everything british was ripped down and burned in the middle of the intersection immediately after the reading, including the unicorn that flank the eastside that was put up in 1881. but immediately it was one of the first few things that was ripped off the symbols of british...
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when they came together, i think that the 55 people who gathered in philadelphia had most of them, not all of them, most of them had an imperative that they were going to create something like a representative democracy or republic of all of these different elements, and they have almost everything but that and they can with a whole lot of different ideas about what they were going to do. and nobody came away with exactly what they wanted. most people didn't come away with anything close to what they wanted except that a very remarkable thing. >> host: these are very polarized times. the congress and the 79 piece is as polarized as today in your book if we think the media is polarized or in tents today and we haven't seen anything with compared to then. so how were they able to compromise than in the similarly polarized times it is hard to compromise that. >> guest: they didn't like it any better than we like it, and they got as mad. somebody said, and i've never been able to track this down, maybe you know who said it, politics has compromised everything else is fear. and i think we a
when they came together, i think that the 55 people who gathered in philadelphia had most of them, not all of them, most of them had an imperative that they were going to create something like a representative democracy or republic of all of these different elements, and they have almost everything but that and they can with a whole lot of different ideas about what they were going to do. and nobody came away with exactly what they wanted. most people didn't come away with anything close to...